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Uthman, Olalekan A., Sinclair, Marta, Willems, B. and Youngs, T. (2014) Interventions to promote the use of seat belts (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 7 . pp. 1-9. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD011218 ISSN 1469-493X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD011218
Abstract
At a time in the world’s history when many of the health concerns
of the past are showing some indication of improvement,
traffic related health concerns are growing. Over 1.2 million people
die each year as a result of traffic collisions and hundreds of
thousands of others are permanently and seriously injured (WHO
2009). In 2002, road-traffic injuries ranked as the tenth leading
cause of death in the world (WHO 2001). In 2004 that ranking
rose to seventh, and it is expected that by 2030 road injuries
will rank as the fifth leading cause of death (WHO 2009). The
developing world bears the brunt of these injuries, over 90% of
fatalities occur in low- and middle-income countries, where death
rates can be up to twelve or thirteen times higher than in highincome
countries (WHO 2009). Apart from the personal losses
that these figures represent what is also clear is that these levels of
injury represent huge cost burdens to countries with already limited
resources (Nordberg 2000; Olukoga 2004; Chandran 2010;
Juillard 2010; Mashreky 2010; Bhatti 2011). Work is needed to
reduce the number of collisions that occur - through improved
functionality of roads, vehicles and drivers themselves. Concurrently,
we need to find cost-effective ways of reducing the severity
of injuries sustained in the collisions that do occur (WHO 2004).
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | ||||
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1469-493X | ||||
Official Date: | 24 July 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-9 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1002/14651858.CD011218 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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